IndependentOther independent school · Hertfordshire · AL5 4DU · Christian
All-through (primary + secondary) · ages 4–16
The King's School is an independent, fee-paying school in Hertfordshire, teaching pupils aged 4 to 16. It has a religious character (Christian).
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | — | — | — | — |
| Attainment 8 | 60.592nd percentile | 60.092nd percentile | 69.796th percentile | 63.494th percentile |
Progress 8 is not calculated for independent schools — it needs an end-of-primary baseline the Department for Education does not hold for their pupils — so only the raw grade average appears above.
Attainment 8 is the average grade pupils leave with across eight GCSEs; it tells you where they ended up, and tracks the intake a school admits as much as anything the school does. Progress 8 compares those grades with pupils nationally who had the same results at the end of primary school, so it is the better measure of what a school added.
| Grade 5+ in English & Maths | 77%93rd percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 5.4691st percentile |
Many independent schools enter pupils for IGCSEs, which the Department for Education leaves out of its performance measures. A KS4 figure for one of them therefore counts only part of what its pupils sat, and can understate the school severely — a cohort taking mostly IGCSEs can show a grade-average near zero. Independent school results are best asked for from the school itself.
Not applicable — independent schools and city technology colleges admit directly rather than through the council's coordinated scheme, so the national application figures say nothing about how sought-after they are.
Not published — the Department for Education's absence statistics cover state-funded schools, so there are no figures for this one.
Not inspected, or no grade in the published data
Around half of schools currently have no grade here — usually recently opened schools, or academies whose last full inspection was under a predecessor URN.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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